On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 Stimp <> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 Alexey Smirnov <> wrote:
>> On Jun 22, 3:26 am, Stimp <> wrote:
>>> I am running Visual Studio 2003 and while opening ANY of my ASP.NET 1.1
>>> projects I get the following error appearing in an alert box:
>>>
>>> "Unable to retrieve folder information from the server"
>>>
>>> None of the files for the project open in the solution explorer.
>>>
>>> Has anyone ever experienced this, or know of a solution?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter
>>
>> try this
>> http://robz.homedns.org:8080/blog/archive/2004/11/05/187.aspx
>
> thanks, but deleting VSWebCache exacerbated the problem when I tried it
> before (I found that link earlier)
>
> The original problem was that I got the error on ONE project.
>
> Then I deleted VSWebCache (which incidentally has been recreated fine by
> VS since)
>
> Then I couldn't open any projects?!?

You don't have to. I had the same problem and it took me a full day to figure it out. As of version 1.4.8 (maybe earlier I don't know, but I used this particular version) right click in a random folder
-> TortoiseSVN -> Settings. Now in the "general" section you can check the option "use "_svn" instead of ".svn" directories". Doing this magically solved my problem. This will only apply to the next projects that you will check out, not to the existing ones. I.e.: It will not convert the existing ".svn" folders to "_svn".
When you click on OK it asks you to reboot the system. Don't ask me why, just do it .

The solution is perfect. It was happening due to the .svn extension. Changed the option from the setting of Tortoise SVN. Got it working. Thanks a ton.
> On Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:26 PM Stimp wrote:
> I am running Visual Studio 2003 and while opening ANY of my ASP.NET 1.1
> projects I get the following error appearing in an alert box:
>
> "Unable to retrieve folder information from the server"
>
> None of the files for the project open in the solution explorer.
>
> Has anyone ever experienced this, or know of a solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> --
>
> fiddlewidawiddum

>>> On Friday, June 22, 2007 11:49 AM Stimp wrote:
>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 Alexey Smirnov <> wrote:
>>>
>>> thanks, but deleting VSWebCache exacerbated the problem when I tried it
>>> before (I found that link earlier)
>>>
>>> The original problem was that I got the error on ONE project.
>>>
>>> Then I deleted VSWebCache (which incidentally has been recreated fine by
>>> VS since)
>>>
>>> Then I couldn't open any projects?!?
>>> --
>>>
>>> fiddlewidawiddum

>>>>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:44 AM Riccardo Corradin wrote:
>>>>> You don't have to. I had the same problem and it took me a full day to figure it out. As of version 1.4.8 (maybe earlier I don't know, but I used this particular version) right click in a random folder
>>>>>
>>>>> -> TortoiseSVN -> Settings. Now in the "general" section you can check the option "use "_svn" instead of ".svn" directories". Doing this magically solved my problem. This will only apply to the next projects that you will check out, not to the existing ones. I.e.: It will not convert the existing ".svn" folders to "_svn".
>>>>>
>>>>> When you click on OK it asks you to reboot the system. Don't ask me why, just do it .

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